Tidligere børnesoldater i Sydsudans hær er fundet sammen om at bekæmpe sociale problemer i det nye land. Særligt blandt unge og tidligere børnesoldater. De unge soldater blev også kendt som “Den Røde Hær” og led store tab, skriver The Guardian onsdag.
“In the first few years, the Red Army fought and was always massacred,” one military officer told the human rights organisation (Human Rights Watch, red.). Participants say that, at its height, the Red Army numbered in the tens of thousands.
The use of child soldiers is one of the more horrific moments in the history of South Sudan’s creation, but the former Red Army members who gathered last weekend in Juba are not shy about remembering their experiences. Instead, they are relying on the ties formed in combat to organise a new front.
Less than a year ago, the Red Army was resurrected as the Red Army Foundation (RAF), an organisation dedicated to addressing social problems, especially among its own former members and South Sudan’s youth.
Læs hele historien i The Guardian (South Sudan’s Red Army comes of age).
